Missing woman found near Bath had burned own house after husband's 2011 death

Frank Warner, Of The Morning Call

The missing Monroe County woman found by police Thursday in the woods north of Bath burned down her house shortly after her husband died three years ago, according to court records.

Toni Serfas, now 53, set a fire on June 27, 2011, to the Stroud Township home she had shared with her husband, Jonathan D. Serfas, who died May 29, 2011.

When police found her Thursday crawling in the Moore Township woods, they said her disoriented behavior appeared related to her failure to adjust to her husband's death.

Three years earlier, as she was treated for injuries outside her smoldering Stroud home, Serfas said she started the fire because she wanted to die, police said at the time. The $175,000 house was a total loss.